A point that is inherent in every person, without exception. This is a lie. Any person has deceived at least once in his life, even if it’s not serious. If a person assures you that he has never cheated, he is doing it right now in front of you....
One day a man bought vegetables at the market. Arriving home, he discovered that the merchants had placed boxes of stones in his cart instead of goods. It’s a pity, of course, but I decided that it should remain on the conscience of the merchants, threw away the stones and continued to live as before. After 40 long years, there was a knock on his house. When the man opened the door, decrepit old men stood on the threshold.
“Hello,” they said, “We deceived you then, and we came to ask for forgiveness.”
“I remember that incident,” the man answered, “I forgave you that same day, throwing the stones into the pit.”
“And we carried them for forty years in our hearts,” the merchants sighed.
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Moral: each of our lies adds a pebble to us, and we ourselves make our lives harder and harder... And a lie is like a snowball: in order to cover up the previous lie, you need to invent a new one. It is not at all difficult to lie once, but it is much more difficult to lie only once...
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru